Ever since Zhang Yue was targeted by the Ghost, and after a battle with the Ghost the incident quickly fermented on a global scale, the whole world fell into a state of bipolar turmoil.
On one hand, the Eight Great Nations and their allied nations all felt joy for this, holding grand banquets offline in each empire, raising their glasses in celebration.
On the other hand, countless people felt regret over the fall of God Zero.
At the same time, they also felt both awe and fear toward the Ghost's power.
As for the Dragon Nation, it gathered the strength of professional powerhouses from across the nation to attack the major Gates of Immortality of worlds 44, 55, and 66, with the goal of obtaining the Resurrection God Stone quest.
With support from allied nations such as Bear Nation, the Sevian Empire, Thracian, Argenine, and the White Nation, they officially launched a full assault on the Gate of Immortality.
Although people were unwilling to believe it, the truth presented to the world's eyes was that Zhang Yue had already died.
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However, in a secret place unknown to anyone…
An endless molten lava land.
Roar!
Accompanied by a dragon's roar, the massive body of the Thirty-Six-Winged Armageddon Black Dragon leapt out from within the lava, landing on a high ground.
At this moment, the Armageddon Black Dragon's entire body, including its wings, had been corroded by the molten lava, showing severe burn injuries.
Spreading its wings, it gently placed Zhang Yue, whom it had sheltered with its body, onto the high ground.
Zhang Yue got up, finding himself completely unharmed.
Beside him, however, the Armageddon Black Dragon had fallen into irreparable severe burns, and due to intense pain, it slowly lay down on the ground, letting out deep, low howls of sorrow.
Zhang Yue reached out and patted the Black Dragon, a trace of heartache welling in his heart.
At the same time, a glint of killing intent flashed in his eyes.
In Zhang Yue's mind, he couldn't help recalling the events that had just happened not long ago.
In the Arena Level-4's battlefield 36, he was fighting the Flowing Gold Warrior, or more precisely, he was fighting Asura.
Although he didn't know why such an absurd situation occurred, one thing was certain: the opponent had used someone's soul to occupy his Asura body from a hundred years ago, thus creating the Flowing Gold Warrior before him.
As for who exactly that person was, he did not know. Most likely, it was some enemy he had offended back when he was Asura a hundred years ago.
Otherwise, the hatred toward Zhang Yue wouldn't be so deep.
Moreover, this person's strength was not low, otherwise, with just an Asura body without a soul, he wouldn't have been able to stir up such a great storm.
After all, this person could even control the three strongest Main Gods of the Otherworld from a hundred years ago.
A powerful soul, combined with a powerful body, had forged a peerless powerhouse of his generation.
In the earlier battle, Asura displayed strength on par with Zhang Yue.
But in essence, Zhang Yue was superior.
Because the opponent retained most of Asura's combat traits and techniques, and no one understood himself better than Zhang Yue.
Relying on his understanding of himself, if it were a one-on-one fight, Zhang Yue could completely defeat Asura.
Unfortunately, the opponent also had the support of the three Main Gods.
God of Wrath Jie'e, due to his life soul being in Zhang Yue's hands, had greatly reduced strength and was of little threat.
But God of Malevolence Motan and God of Desire Wuen, empowered by their life souls, even though weakened from their quasi-king-level BOSS strength of a hundred years ago to their current immortal-level BOSS strength, were still several times stronger than ordinary immortal-level BOSSes, even stronger than pseudo-king-level BOSSes.
Asura, together with the three Main Gods, defeated Zhang Yue.
However, Zhang Yue's secret of the [Demon Contract · Death Pact] had already been discovered by Asura.
Since it was impossible to permanently kill Zhang Yue directly in the arena, and killing him would come at the cost of being counter-killed, after defeating Zhang Yue, Asura did not kill him, but instead used the [God of Desire · Wuen] to release the Demon Domain, trapping Zhang Yue inside.
This was one of God of Desire Wuen's major techniques.
When the Demon Domain was released during battle, it could randomly teleport the enemy into a corresponding world, into a domain with a confinement effect, temporarily, or even permanently, imprisoning the enemy inside.
At this moment, Zhang Yue was in such a domain.
For Asura, his purpose was simply to temporarily seal Zhang Yue, preventing him from interfering with his upcoming actions.
Zhang Yue was his only concern.
Without Zhang Yue, Asura could do as he pleased in the Hell Gladiator Arena, freely killing competing professional powerhouses, using devouring forms to absorb their strength and empower himself.
Those who could enter the Hell Gladiator Arena were all top-tier professional powerhouses from the great Nations.
Asura and the three Main Gods, like Zhang Yue, had been revived after a century of slumber, with their strength weakened. In his current state, he could not kill high-level professionals.
But gaining power by devouring prey of equal level was too inefficient.
The rules of the Hell Gladiator Arena could set any professional powerhouse's strength to level 175.
So his ultimate goal was to use the Hell Gladiator Arena to, in the shortest possible time, devour large numbers of top-tier professionals from the great Nations, quickly breaking his weakened state and restoring his strength.
The three Main Gods themselves also possessed devouring forms, able to quickly grow stronger by killing and consuming the power of their enemies.
Thus, when leaving the Hell Gladiator Arena, Asura could command his level-500 Tier 9 king-class body and the three Main Gods, whose strength had been restored to their quasi-king-level BOSS state of a hundred years ago, and directly ascend to the peak of the Otherworld.
Zhang Yue looked around.
At this moment, Cherry flapped her transparent wings, flying over from the sky.
"Master, this seems to be a sealed space. I couldn't find any exit from here."
Zhang Yue slightly frowned, "The three Main Gods… truly troublesome."
Cherry asked, "Master, is this the space released just now by that big bad dragon with many eyes?"
"No," Based on hundreds of encounters with the God of Desire a hundred years ago and his understanding of it, Zhang Yue said, "This is a hidden map in the World 32. The Demon Domain of the God of Desire isn't an independent space, it's more like a teleportation passage. Through the Demon Domain, we've been sent to this hidden map that already exists within the World 32 of the Otherworld."
A hundred years ago, when Zhang Yue, Wolong, and Yinlong fought against the three Main Gods, they had also been hit by the God of Desire's trick many times, often sent to some godforsaken place and only able to get out after several days.
Zhang Yue didn't feel like wasting effort to crack this map himself.
He opened his contact list and sent Ouyang Linger a message, "Help me crack this, what place is this?"
The next second—
[Ding~ In special regions, messages cannot be sent!]
"Damn! Forgot that the God of Desire's Demon Domain comes with an isolation effect…"
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